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- This is being posted to several lists.
-
- The deadline for papers for the Network Services Conference has been
- extended to June 21st. I'm particularly keen to see papers on
- information services and perhaps someone could do a "consumer report"
- on some of the applications such as WWW, WAIS, Gopher archie etc. -
- with particular emphasis on the information management tools (for the
- information providers).
-
- I'm also interested in papers for the user support sections, and would
- like to see case studies presented in building "electronic
- communities".
-
- I'll forward any papers sent to me - or you can forward them to the
- conf. secretariat as indicated below.
-
- Thanks,
-
- Jill Foster
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-
- First Call for Participation / Call for Papers
- NSC'92
- The Network Services Conference 1992
- Pisa, Italy, November 3-5, 1992
-
-
- Network Services Conference 1992
-
- Overview
-
-
- The world of academic and research networking has evolved to the point
- where the protocol wars have become largely irrelevant. This is
- demonstrated by the recent appearance of high-level networking tools
- which are worldwide in scope and which run simultaneously over many
- different lower layers.
-
- NSC 92 will focus on issues in providing services to customers, with
- special attention paid to the recent and exciting developments in new
- global high-level tools such as World-Wide Web, Prospero, Archie, Alex,
- Gopher, and WAIS. We will address the impact of the new global tools on
- service development and support, the changing function of traditional
- tools and services (such as archives), upcoming specific services such
- as new databases, and the future role of the library. User support at
- the campus level, and the role of support in accessing global services,
- will be addressed.
-
- The conference will be of greatest interest to network service providers
- and sophisticated users who are changing their focus from providing or
- obtaining bandwidth to offering, supporting, and using varied and
- powerful services. Talks and other conference activities will address
- the needs of the research, academic, educational, governmental,
- industrial, and commercial network communities.
-
- NSC 92 is being organized by EARN in conjunction with EUnet/EurOpen,
- NORDUnet, RARE, and RIPE.
-
- Conference Venue
-
- Pisa is situated in Tuscany on the Arno river. The Italian poet Gabriele
- D'ANNUNZIO named Pisa's Piazza della Torre: "The Square of Miracles",
- and yet the definition could be extended with equal justice to the whole
- city. Pisa is not only an art center with few rivals; it is steeped in
- culture and science and offers an up-to-date infrastructure. The
- conference will be held at the Palazzo dei Congressi, near the city
- center and at walking distance to the Hotels.
-
- Program and Registration Information
-
- The conference program with information on how to register will be
- distributed with the second announcement around 1 August 1992.
-
- Papers
-
- Papers for presentation at the conference are solicited in the following
- areas:
-
- - Dealing with the Information Explosion
- . New Global Information Access Tools
- . Utilizing Established Information Access and Distribution Tools
-
- - Managing Global Network Information Services
- . Coordination/Duplication, Security, Privacy, Authentication
- . Closed Group Applications
-
- - The Electronic Library
- . Local Databases, Remote Databases, OPACS, CD/ROMS
- . Inter-Library Cooperation
-
- - User / Customer Support
- . Help Desks, Documentation, Reaching the Customers
-
- - Assessing Customer Needs
-
- - Special Interest Communities
-
- - Group Communication Technologies & Services - "Groupware"
-
- - Networking for Schools
-
- - Delivering Messaging to the Desktop
- . Practical Experiences, Products, Security, Interface issues
-
- - Beyond ASCII
- . Character sets, Multimedia
- . Creating, Encoding, Receiving
-
- - Economic Aspects of Networking
- . Bandwidth, E-mail Access, Efficiency, Control
-
- - Recent European Networking Developments
-
- Please submit title and abstract, by mail, fax or PREFERRABLY e-mail,
- not later than 31 May 1992 to:
-
- Hans Deckers (DECK@FRORS12.BITNET)
- EARN Office
- c/o CIRCE
- BP 167
- F91403 Orsay France
- Tel: +33 1 6982 3973
- Fax: +33 1 6928 5273
-
- Posters and Demonstrations
-
- A poster wall will be available to participants for the display of
- their posters and projects. A terminal room with connectivity to EARN
- and the Internet will be available to delegates.
-
- A room will be available for workstations and PCs to be used for
- demonstrations. An Ethernet connected to the Internet will be available
- in the room. Connectivity to the Internet will be via a 64Kbps line to
- CNUCE. The minimum bandwidth between CNUCE and CERN is 512Kbps. People
- interested in setting up demonstrations may send their questions to
- NSCINFO@FRORS12.BITNET
-
- Further Information and General Inquiry
-
- Further information will be available through an ad hoc conference
- mailing list. If you want to make sure you receive the invitation as
- well as the preliminary program please ask for subscription to the
- conference mailing list ( NSC92@FRORS12.BITNET ) sending mail, e-mail
- or fax specifying your e-mail address to:
-
- Nadine Grange (GRANGE@FRORS12.BITNET)
- EARN Office
- c/o CIRCE
- BP 167
- F91403 Orsay France
- Tel: +33 1 6982 3973
- Fax: +33 1 6928 5273
-
- General inquiries can be made at NSCINFO@FRORS12.
-
-
- Program and Organizing Committee
-
- Program Committee
-
- Dennis Jennings, Ireland (Chair); Rob Blokzijl, the Netherlands;
- Daniele Bovio, France; Paul Bryant, United Kingdom; Avi Cohen,
- Israel; Laszlo Csaba, Hungary; Hans Deckers, France; Jean-Loic
- Delhaye, France; Jill Foster, United Kingdom; Frode Greisen, Denmark;
- Glenn Kowack, the Netherlands; Stelios Orphanoudakis, Greece; David
- Sitman, Israel; Stefano Trumpy, Italy
-
- Organizing Committee
-
- Frode Greisen, Denmark (Chair ); Hans Deckers, France; Dennis
- Jennings, Ireland; Glenn Kowack, the Netherlands; Marco Sommani,
- Italy
-
-
- Corporate Sponsors (Preliminary list )
-
- IBM
-
-
-